Definition of "authorization"

authorization

noun
countable and uncountable, plural authorizations
1. (countable) An act of authorizing.
  Quotations
  Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
  1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116
  His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
  1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46
  Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
  1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36
2. (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
3. (countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
4. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.